Caroline Cook

The Leicestershire Organisation for the Relief of Suffering (LOROS), a hospice-based charity, runs a lymphoedema service and is facing an increase in the number of referrals for the treatment of obesity-related lymphoedema. This article highlights the issues involved and questions the...

There has been an increasing number of referrals of obese patient to lymphoedema services Lymphoedema in obesity is oḀen complicated by multiple comorbidities. Treatments for lymphoedema have been shown to be unsuccessful without concurrent and sustained weight loss. This article describes the...